Research Contributions

A deeper dive into the problems I care about (accessibility, security, and AI forensics) and the work I’ve done across papers, benchmarks, and a granted patent.

H-Index: 3•Total Citations: 21+•Google Scholar

Timeline

Publications

CitationsYear

A Comprehensive Dataset for Human vs. AI Generated Image Detection

R Roy, N Imanpour, A Aziz, S Bajpai, G Singh, S Biswas, K Wanaskar, S Dixit

arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.00553

A massive-scale longitudinal dataset addressing the difficulty of distinguishing hyper-realistic generated imagery from authentic photography.

arXiv

2026

Peccavi: Visual Paraphrase Attack Safe and Distortion Free Image Watermarking Technique for AI-Generated Images

S Dixit, A Aziz, S Bajpai, V Sharma, A Chadha, V Jain, A Das

arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.22960

Proposes a watermarking approach that is robust against 'visual paraphrase' attacks while maintaining zero visual distortion in the source media.

arXiv

2025

A Comprehensive Dataset for Human vs. AI Generated Text Detection

R Roy, N Imanpour, A Aziz, S Bajpai, G Singh, S Biswas, K Wanaskar, S Dixit

arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.22874

A comprehensive dataset curated specifically for evaluating and training models on human vs. AI-generated text detection.

2025

The Visual Counter Turing Test (VCT²): A Benchmark for Evaluating AI-Generated Image Detection and the Visual AI Index (V_AI)

N Imanpour, A Borah, S Bajpai, S Ghosh, SR Sankepally, HM Abdullah, S Dixit

Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language...

Introduces the Visual AI Index (V_AI) and a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated image detection, highlighting gaps in current detection pipelines.

2025

Visual counter turing test (vct2): Discovering the challenges for ai-generated image detection and introducing visual ai index (vAI)

N Imanpour, S Bajpai, S Ghosh, SR Sankepally, A Borah, HM Abdullah, S Dixit

arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.16754

Early preprint discovering the fundamental challenges in detecting highly sophisticated AI-generated visual content.

2024

Overview of text counter turing test: Ai generated text detection

R Roy, G Singh, A Aziz, S Bajpai, N Imanpour, S Biswas, K Wanaskar, S Dixit

Proceedings of DeFactify 4

Overview paper for the text track of the DeFactify 4 workshop, detailing the counter Turing test methodologies for LLMs.

2024

Defactify-text: A comprehensive dataset for human vs. ai generated text detection

R Roy, G Singh, A Aziz, S Bajpai, N Imanpour, S Biswas, K Wanaskar, S Dixit

Proceedings of DeFactify 4

Official dataset release paper associated with the DeFactify 4 text counter Turing test challenge.

2024

Defactifyimage: A comprehensive dataset for human vs. ai generated image detection

R Roy, A Aziz, S Bajpai, N Imanpour, G Singh, S Biswas, K Wanaskar, S Dixit

Proceedings of DeFactify 4

Dataset paper for the visual track of DeFactify 4, establishing baseline corpora for diffusion and GAN detection.

2024

Overview of image counter turing test: Ai generated image detection

R Roy, N Imanpour, A Aziz, S Bajpai, G Singh, S Biswas, K Wanaskar, S Dixit

Proceedings of DeFactify 4

Overview paper for the image track of the DeFactify 4 workshop, detailing the counter Turing test for visual synthetic media.

2024

Wave-Former: Lag Removing Univariate Long Time Series Forecasting Transformer for Ocean Waves

D Shreyas, D Pradnya

Ocean Engineering 312 (119109), 15

A specialized Transformer architecture designed to reduce lag in long time series forecasting for ocean wave prediction.

Journal

2024

Assistance Platform for Visually Impaired Person using Image Captioning

S Dixit

IN Patent App. 202,321,004,399

A patented wearable system leveraging real-time image captioning to provide a descriptive audio narrative of the user's environment.

2023

Rethinking Data Integrity in Federated Learning: Are we ready?

S Dixit, PN Mahalle, GR Shinde

2022 IEEE International Women in Engineering (WIE) Conference on Electrical...

Investigates vulnerabilities in distributed learning—especially poisoning and data tampering—and proposes protocols to improve integrity.

IEEE Xplore

2022

Mentors & Co-Authors

Aman Chadha
Mentor
GenAI @DeepMind
Ex: Apple, AWS, Nvidia & Stanford AI
Vinija Jain
Mentor
ML Leadership @Google
Ex: Meta, Amazon, Oracle
Vasu Sharma
Mentor
Head of AI @PocketFM
Ex: Meta Superintelligence Labs (FAIR), Tesla Optimus, Citadel & CMU
Amitava Das
Mentor
Professor, CS, BITS Pilani
Former - AIISC, USC
Prof. Parikshit N. Mahalle
Mentor
Dean - Academics, Professor
VIT, Pune
Dr. Pradnya Dixit
Mentor
Associate Professor
VIT, Pune
Shashwat Bajpai
Co-Author
MSc Student, BITS Pilani
Research Intern, Mercedes-Benz
Ashhar Aziz
Co-Author
Applied Scientist
Amazon
Subhankar Ghosh
Co-Author
Co-Founder
Xpectrum AI